Regional political pressure should not be allowed to limit the sustainable development of acute surgical services in regions like Otago and Southland, the chairman of the New Zealand board of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons said.
The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal upheld a decision not to give Michael Guest a practising certificate after deciding he misled it "by lies or calculated omission" during a hearing on his application to be readmitted to the roll of barristers.
Dunedin taxi drivers converged on a dark City Rise street to help the city's youngest owner-driver after he was allegedly assaulted by an intoxicated passenger.
Taieri farmer wants TrustPower to audit its transmission lines after eight of his dairy cows were electrocuted when a 33kV line taking electricity from the Waipori Dam dropped across his farm.
David Bain is on the receiving end of a beatup to snare television ratings as he tries to get on with a normal life, long-time supporter Joe Karam says.
A network of tiny sensors will be installed along some of the South's most slippery roads as part of a project to improve safety on the region's state highways.
Men with European names and thick Indian accents have tried to convince an Otago woman to pay $249 for what police suspect is a fictitious bank refund secured by a fictitious refund agency.
A new five-star ratings system that might influence insurance premiums and whether bus and freight operators get school or government contracts could be rolled out to taxi and shuttle companies.
A curve and a shop entrance that have figured in nine crashes in a decade will be smoothed and removed in what could be a $5 million job on the highway north of Dunedin.
Trustpower's 9200 Dunedin domestic customers will pay nearly 8% more for their electricity from October on the back of a price rise and the new cost of GST.
Consultants have stopped short of discouraging the Dunedin City Council from opening the Caversham tunnel to cyclists - in a report a tunnel proponent calls short-sighted and clouded with "Rolls-Royce" price tags.
Government personnel will travel on bus tours to police a new concessions system that is supposed to help stop freeloading tour operators profiting from public land.
A cycleway linking Dunedin and the Taieri Plain could cost $7 million to complete - about four times more than city councillors originally expected, a report set for release this morning says.
A confused radio call turned into a Mayday that was confirmed when a South Korean-registered fishing boat dropped off the radar about 400 nautical miles east of Dunedin.
Dunedin police have grave concerns for Brad Anderson (25), who has been missing since yesterday morning.
Michael Guest is a tall poppy who has been hung out to dry by some jealous of his achievements as a lawyer and Dunedin city councillor, Cr Bill Acklin says.
An experienced but as yet unsuccessful Dunedin mayoral candidate will promote a rates freeze for the term in the city's top civic office.
Taxis might start using bus stops in a short-term fix to drivers' concerns about parking and crowd control in central Dunedin.
Fifty-two teenagers were rewarded on Saturday for their volunteer work, community focus and sense of adventure.
Hundreds of sheep on up to 30 West Otago farms are believed to have died from a disease that causes ewes to abort.
